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AJ knits is weekly fiber crafting podcast. The host AJ has been knitting for about 10 year and crocheting almost as long. Join in to hear what's on the needles and all about AJ's learning curve as a new spinner.

45 episodes available.
A new episode about every
12 days
averaging 27 mins duration
.

Episode 43 Productions scheduling Events Production What's in my Tea Pot Materials sourcing After 5 Events 1.Wool fest June 23 & 24, 2012 at Lake farm Park Production The Juno Regina Miriam Felton back from the dead! I sat down with my charts and a stitch marker this week and tinked back the row 3 times before I found the spot where the titch w ...…

Episode 42: Alpaca and Ewe or “ “ Production Scheduling Suddenly out of the blue my calendar has filled up with fibery events! Yay! During the winter there really wasn’t much to do but knit and surf yarn on the internet. Spring is here and even though it’s hotter than a 2.00 pistol it’s time to get back on the road! Events Production What’s in ...…

Episode:41 Production scheduling I’m semi freshly back from camp KIP. I have so much to talk about regarding camp that I think it’s going to be an entire podcast. SO instead of launching into that now I’ll use this week to get caught up on what I’ve been doing and will recap Camp in depth next episode. I will say this. Camp Kip was absolutely a ...…

Episode: 40 Production scheduling Production What’s in My Teapot Materials Sourcing Shipping After 5 Production Gnome Socks By Spilly Jane Drop stitch Scarf by Lisa Buccellato found in the spring and summer 2012 issue of vogue knitting. I’m not usually one for pink and girly but I really like this! I’m knitting this from Cascade Pima Cotton in ...…

Episode: 39 Production scheduling Production Knitting Mojo exhausted What’s in My Teapot Materials Sourcing After 5 Production Gnome Socks By Spilly Jane Another week of little progress. Last time we talked I wasn’t liking my tension which was skewing my gauge. The big debate was to Frog, perfect and frog, or Plunge on. I’m taking the path of l ...…

Episode 38: Production scheduling Production What’s in My Teapot Materials Sourcing After 5 Production Gnome Socks By Spilly Jane I had a little progress on these this week. I’m in to the three color rows which include the tip of the gnomes beard, his shirt, and the main color. I have a feeling that my gauge is too loose. There aren’t any blata ...…

Episode 36: Production scheduling – It feels so good to be back infront of the microphone! Not to be to Excusey but... there's a chineese curse. Or a saying that's been attributed as a chineese curse... That says May you live in interesting times. Life over here ahas taken a turn to the interesting to say the least. Production What’s in My Teap ...…

AJ explains / makes up excuses for her unplanned hiatus. Tons on the needles, nothing off the needles, and a good dollop of trials and tribulations. Aj and Joe snuck off for a date night and while they weren't looking the inlaws have been spoiling B.

In this mini episode AJ updates on the holiday knittign and the newly cast on scarf. Joe makes stew and Nate takes the ice while B is starting to compile his christmas wish list. AJ keeps her winning mojo going by winning another project bag.

Happy Halloween. The crispness of fall is in the air! AJ has mulled cider in the crock pot, B has his Halloween costume, and Joe only gets about 4 houses down while trick or treating. AJ has a project in shipping and is swatching everythign in site trying to knit from her sock yarn heavy stash.

AJ and the boys have eaten their way through the Algonquin Mill fall festival. AJ has been shanghaied into holiday knitting, finally started spinning that prized batt, and is working on yet another lace shawl. Joe is poised to cast on a real project. Meanwhile B doesn't like tea and is still figuring out his Halloween costume.…

AJ has finished the acrylic mitts and Joe doesn't understand why anyone would want fingerless mittens. AJ is back in the kitchen and nothing has exploded. There's been a yardage error and AJ needs to decide if their will be any holiday knitting and if so for whom and what it will be.

A little bit of knitting on the Brea Bag. A little bit of spinning. A few family get togethers and blind gift exchange. Joe is channeling his inner Chef and B "winned" it all. Sit down, grab a tea cup and let's catch up!

AJ, Joe, an B have eaten their way through the Yankee Peddler. Joe has come to the dark side and is learning to knit. B think Ollie the dog has married. Though all of this AJ has been able to do just a bit of knitting and Spinning.

The Yarn Discovery Tour is on! Aj had done some stash enmhancement, gotten a few new toys, and is failing miserably in her knitting. Joe has decided that wants to see what all the fuss over knitting is about and plansto teach him to knit have commenced.

Happy Labor Day! Aj is knitting nate a hat with a beard and 'Stache combo attached. Joe has learned to read a knitting pattern (Kinda...) and B is running aroudn the yard with marshmallows. Thatere's tons of knittinf and craziness gogin on this week!

The Embassy Scarf and the 1st of 3 Kitschy Tea Cup Pot Holders are done! There's been lot's of spinning going on and something new on the needles. It's also back to school season. AJ laments that she can;t ever get the back to school shopping done in any minute but the last minute and almost had to kill an intern.…

The podcast is late and AJ has a sore jaw. What should of been a really productive fiber week got derailed by adventures in truffles and marshmallows only to be totally Kiboshed by Oral surgery and pain meds. The Embassy Scarf by Amy Polcyn is still on the needles. For some reason AJ hasn't given up on those scrap yarn socks yet and she learned ...…

Aj, Joe, & B brave the heat at the Peninsula Fiber Fling. There's Storehouse Black and Red Tea in the tea pot. Aj get's lost in a tchotchke shop looking for tea. Joe dodges a bullet when Aj doesn't buy a new pet and a knitting project was actrually completed! HUZZAH!

AJ has been knitting, and crocheting, and spinning like crazy all week. There's all sorts of things mid stream and nothign is done! The family has finally escaped the house and gotten that Mexican dinner, Joe is corrupting B, and of all people B is the back seat driver! Even with all the Hijinks and knitting AJ read Soulless by Gail Carriger an ...…

It's week two of Tour De Flecce and things on AJ's bobbins have gone south.... way south. There's has been some knitting this week. The Swatch from H#!! hs redeemed itself and the hibernating purple scarf has been finished. B has decided he's jsut a jet pack away from life as the caped crusader and the whole house is and itchy mess! Don't bats ...…

Week one of Tour De Fleece is over! Aj isn't comitting to anything knitting wise and is workign on some UFO's and the swatch from Hades. It's also been one honey of a week and AJ tells about her " Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very BadWeek".

The Tour De Fleece is here! This week AJ has on her white rookie jersey and is spinning with all she's got. Even with all this spinning there's something in shipping, a celebratory tea in the tea pot, and Joe is weilding a hammer in the kitchen!

WoolFest has come and gone. AJ talks about her long awaited spinning class, goings on at Wool Fest, the project that's finally off the needles, something new in production, and round 2 of "Joe doesn't want hand Knits".

The wedding is over! Aj get back to knitting on the Daybreak shawl by Stephen West, Drinks several pots of Zhena's Gypsy tea, wears a ball of felted fiber on her head, and take a look at the grail of plus Size knitting Big Girl Knits by Jillian Moreno and Amy R Singer.

This week AJ's "Life" keeps gettign the way of her knitting. AJ talks about her progress on the Daybreak, Tour De Fleece Training, how she wound up with a wet backside and covered in beans, and Intentional Spinning.

This week AJ discusses her progress and pitfalls with the Daybreak Shawl By Stephen West, discusses local fibery happenings, has finally cast on a plarn project, and we find out just how hard it is to look macho and cool while holding a balloon animal. Aj also drools over some of the patterns in the Summer 2011 Knitscene Magazine. This week in ...…

This week AJ and B were on the road. AJ has forsaken all other patterns for the Daybreak Shawl by Stephen West this week. Aj and B visit fiber friendly Greenfield village, Stash dive in Melissa's tea stash, complete the Tour De Food, and still get a bit of spinning and dyeing done along the way.

In this episode AJ talks about the Wool-Aid charity and the Knit for Tibet initiative, what's on and off her needles, Smokey Lapsang Suchong Tea, Plarn or Plastic Yarn, Socks for Geese, and The Crooked River Fiber fest.

This is the first episode of AJ Knits. In this episode AJ introduces herself and ansers the age old question "Why do a podcast?". The host also shares what she has in production, what project has gone awfully wrong (and how many times), how she and her singing pig "Babe" are getting on, and general goings on in her life.…

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